Vol. 6, No. 24

Non-Proliferation

Biden Admin Needs “Political Space” to Negotiate with Russia on Arms Control, Says Former Energy Secretary

Reducing the political space for dialogue with Russia was a “critical error” in U.S. foreign policy and will hamper efforts to negotiate a new strategic arms limitation treaty with Moscow, a former energy secretary said during a webinar Tuesday. There’s “a lot of interest” in a new arms control treaty on both sides of the […]
  • Non-Proliferation

    Rosen Uses Armed Services Hearing to Stress Opposition to Nevada Explosive Nuclear Testing

    People in Nevada don’t want to see the U.S. government resume underground explosive-nuclear weapons testing in their state, Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) said Tuesday during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.   “Nevadans do not want to return to a time when there was explosive nuclear testing in our state,” Rosen told Admiral Charles Richard, commander […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    EM-2 Shrader Talks Telecommuting, Vaccines with Advisory Boards

    The Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup sites will stick with “maximum telework” for the time being, the No. 2 boss at the Office of Environmental Management said Tuesday. “As of right now there is no change in our status that we have been in for several months of maximum telework,” Todd Shrader, DOE’s principal deputy […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Environmental Advisory Boards for DOE Have Trouble Securing New Members

    The changeover in presidential administrations has slowed appointments to Site Specific Advisory Boards for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, a federal executive said Tuesday. Appointments to the Savannah River Site’s Citizens Advisory Board have “ground to a halt,” Gregg Murray, a member of that panel, told an online meeting of Environmental Management […]

  • Commercial Decommissioning

    Manchin Urges Biden Admin to Prevent Nuke Plant Closures

    Preserving the country’s civilian nuclear power fleet is “critical” to meeting federal clean energy goals, the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee told the Joe Biden administration Tuesday. “As a zero-emissions baseload fuel source, I believe that maintaining our fleet and preventing closures of existing nuclear plants is critical to achieving emission […]

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